#robot gorillas

[thevhswizard]

Mugenbine Gattai Dig Kong

[evilhorse]

Gorillas! Too many!

[revelsmagazine]

No sooner do I enter the first big settlement I see—a groovy little city inside Fenway Park—than I start hearing ghost stories about the Institute, which is suspected of kidnapping townspeople and replacing them with undetectable synthetic duplicates.  Before long I witness a fight between a man and his synth double—proof that the townspeople aren’t paranoid.  Soon I’m hot on the trail of my son’s killer (all you have to do is follow one quest marker after another, after all), who unsurprisingly works for the Institute, which has used him for over a hundred years to do their wetwork (he’s old, because of technology).  After I put him in the ground, I work with allies I’ve made, including the Railroad, to find and infiltrate the Institute. This is when it all starts going to hell for me.  Fallout, like Elder Scrolls, is largely a game about choice—every conversation and every situation give you a range of responses that help you shape your story in the world and the kind of character you are.  That’s why people love these games—everyone who plays them has their own story, and you can play them multiple times and choose a different experience each time.  But when I entered the Institute, Fallout 4 began to take all sensible options away from me, and left me feeling more constricted than I ever have in a Bethesda game.

“One Perfect Moment In: Fallout 4″ by Alex Vanko

One Perfect Moment in Gaming explores what makes games so special through examination of one moment that defines or shapes a game.  These are moments in the story, gameplay, or experience that stick with you, and which could only be achieved in the medium of video games.